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in 2002, and was the chief counter-terrorism of operations for the cia in pakistan. my job was to try to locate al qaeda fighters were al qaeda leaders and capture them to turn them over to the justice department's and have them face trial. that was the original idea, not to have them sit in cuba for the next decade. but we caught abu zubaydah. he was shot three times by pakistani police as he was tried to escape from his safe house. i was the first person to have custody of him, to sit with him. we spoke to each other extensively. we talked about everything from september 11 to poetry he had been writing to his family. then he was moved on to a secret prison after that. once i got back to headquarters, i heard he had been subject to harsh techniques, then called enhanced interrogation techniques, and i was asked by one of the leaders in this tsa's counter-terrorism center if i wanted to be trained in these of these techniques. i told them i had a moral problem with them and did not want to be involved. fast forward to 2007, by then, human-rights watch and in this in
in 2002, and was the chief counter-terrorism of operations for the cia in pakistan. my job was to try to locate al qaeda fighters were al qaeda leaders and capture them to turn them over to the justice department's and have them face trial. that was the original idea, not to have them sit in cuba for the next decade. but we caught abu zubaydah. he was shot three times by pakistani police as he was tried to escape from his safe house. i was the first person to have custody of him, to sit with...
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last night, i don't know how many hundreds of people that place pakistan, but it was packed. people were waiting outside, begging for tickets. from living in your car to been a social worker at the detention facility in san francisco to what you have presented here, why focus on oscar grant? >> wow. i am from the bay area. that is home for me, where my parents are. specifically from the east bay. i was in the bay area when oscar was shot, on break from film school. i heard a young guy got shot at the platform. by the time i got back from where i was working that night, he had already passed away at a hospital. by the time he had passed away, the video footage of him being shot was already on the internet, already online. the interesting thing about it, it was taken a cell phone cameras and video cameras from that time so it was really grainy. i you could tell was he was a black eye with a certain group of friends wearing a certain certain clothes. it could have been me and my friends. it was horrifying. it was frustrating. these things happen so often. it was -- it put anger
last night, i don't know how many hundreds of people that place pakistan, but it was packed. people were waiting outside, begging for tickets. from living in your car to been a social worker at the detention facility in san francisco to what you have presented here, why focus on oscar grant? >> wow. i am from the bay area. that is home for me, where my parents are. specifically from the east bay. i was in the bay area when oscar was shot, on break from film school. i heard a young guy got...
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he orders missile strikes and other strikes to hit in somalia and yemen, pakistan. we're looking right now at a reality that president obama essentially has extended the very policies that many of his supporters once the post under president bush. i think it says something about the bankrupt nature of politics in this country that the way we feel about life or death policies around the world is determined by who happens to be in office. to me that is a very sobering reality. >> i want to go to a clip of your film, jeremy and rick, the story of muslim cleric anwar al awlaki features prominently in "dirty wars." his 16-year-old son became the third u.s. citizen to be killed in a drone strike in yemen in october 2011. president obama called the assassination of anwar al awlaki a "marlstone." -- "milestone." ♪ >> aiden. it was nothing like a bowl. in afghanistan, life was defined by the war. everything revolved around it. in yemen, there was no war. at least not officially. the strike seems to have come out of the blue and must yemenis were going about life as usual.
he orders missile strikes and other strikes to hit in somalia and yemen, pakistan. we're looking right now at a reality that president obama essentially has extended the very policies that many of his supporters once the post under president bush. i think it says something about the bankrupt nature of politics in this country that the way we feel about life or death policies around the world is determined by who happens to be in office. to me that is a very sobering reality. >> i want to...
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[applause] so we were recently in pakistan, a group of 34 very brave americans, not only from codepink but groups like the veterans for peace, that went to say to the pakistanis, we do not support the drone program and we care about you and your lives. your lives are as precious as our lives. and when we were in a meeting with hundreds and hundreds of postion men, one of them stood up and said, "if you have come here to win our hearts and minds, you have done so." and it showed us that if we go around the world showing we care about other people's lives, if we go around the world spreading compassion and kindness, we will get love back in return. so let's go out spreading a lot of love, and let's make sure that we force our congress and our president to represent the policies of kindness and compassion that we as americans hold dear. >> medea benjamin speaking last night at the peace ball. last week when the national rifle association held its first news conference after the newtown massacre, she was there holding a sign saying "the nra has blood on its hands." she was taken out by sec
[applause] so we were recently in pakistan, a group of 34 very brave americans, not only from codepink but groups like the veterans for peace, that went to say to the pakistanis, we do not support the drone program and we care about you and your lives. your lives are as precious as our lives. and when we were in a meeting with hundreds and hundreds of postion men, one of them stood up and said, "if you have come here to win our hearts and minds, you have done so." and it showed us...
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shias just returned from pakistan. talk about president obama's policies around drone warfare and targeted killings. >> it is remarkable that while drones were used during the bush administration, they were used a total of not 50 times in the case of pakistan and immediately went obamacare in, he and his inner circle decided they would not pick up suspected enemy combatants on the battlefield and take them to guantanamo and they would not pick them up in places like pakistan and put them in guantanamo. instead, they would just kill them. so this has been a policy that has skyrocketed during the obama administration. there have been now over 300 drone strikes in pakistan alone. thousands of people killed the amazing thing about it is how, one, we of been like to by people like john brennan, now the nominee for the cia, saying it had been almost no civilian casualties. and the other is how incredibly counterproductive this policy is because it is the best recruiting tool for al qaeda and the taliban. going to pakistan an
shias just returned from pakistan. talk about president obama's policies around drone warfare and targeted killings. >> it is remarkable that while drones were used during the bush administration, they were used a total of not 50 times in the case of pakistan and immediately went obamacare in, he and his inner circle decided they would not pick up suspected enemy combatants on the battlefield and take them to guantanamo and they would not pick them up in places like pakistan and put them...
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drone strike inside pakistan in less than two weeks. the obama administration has begun 2013 with a flurry of drone attacks inside pakistan, raising speculation is accelerating the bombings before its capacity to carry them out is diminished with a planned withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of next year. according to a tally by the website long war journal, u.s. drones have already killed as many as 11 civilians and 30 suspected militants in the first 10 days of the year. if confirmed, that would mean a death ratio of more than one civilian for every three suspected militants. it would also already exceed the official civilian death toll for 2012, though that number is likely to small because u.s. policy deems all adult males as militants unless contrary evidence emerges after their deaths. according to the washington post, the future stationing of cia bases that launch the drone strikes will be among the topics discussed by the white house and afghan president karzai during karzai's current visit to washington. the obama administra
drone strike inside pakistan in less than two weeks. the obama administration has begun 2013 with a flurry of drone attacks inside pakistan, raising speculation is accelerating the bombings before its capacity to carry them out is diminished with a planned withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of next year. according to a tally by the website long war journal, u.s. drones have already killed as many as 11 civilians and 30 suspected militants in the first 10 days of the year. if confirmed, that...
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drone strike in pakistan earlier today. the strike hit a home in north waziristan. it was at least the seventh u.s. drone strike in less than two weeks. the attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the obama administration's drone warfare overseas. in his remarks at the time, brennan had said there was not a single collateral death in the previous year of drone attacks. his letter qualified his remarks by saying he had no information to the at the time. it has been revealed the u.s. a massacre at the time convict pakistani concerns directly to the highest levels of the obama white house. the concern centered around a march 2011 strike that killed 42 pakistani, most of them civilians. vice-president joe biden met with gun control advocates at the white house on wednesday as part of his task force on tackling gun violence in the united states. in a welcome message to his guests, biden vowed president obama would take meaningful action through executive order if need be. >> we are here today to deal with the problem
drone strike in pakistan earlier today. the strike hit a home in north waziristan. it was at least the seventh u.s. drone strike in less than two weeks. the attack comes as the cia nominee john brennan continues to come under scrutiny for his role in the obama administration's drone warfare overseas. in his remarks at the time, brennan had said there was not a single collateral death in the previous year of drone attacks. his letter qualified his remarks by saying he had no information to the...
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his wife is in pakistan, and he does not see his family until now. they did not find someone to help them. many of them do not have jobs. some of them would be locked again in jail and their country. we have a petition for them, not completed until now. nobody wants to help them. they said, those people are coming from guantanamo. nobody allows for them to travel. they do not have a passport or some way to leave their country or to go somewhere. they still continue -- think of them as terrorists. >> to you plan to sue the u.s. government? >> of course. i will try to open a case against the bush administration and bush himself. there is an organization in geneva called the guantanamo's center. >> guantanamo's justice center. >> the freedom to help people still locked in guantanamo current time to find another country to accept them. to make the judges for the people by following bush and his demonstration. we hope the case against bush in geneva when he is trying to visit geneva. he canceled in 2011. >> he canceled his trip. >> we tried to make for hi
his wife is in pakistan, and he does not see his family until now. they did not find someone to help them. many of them do not have jobs. some of them would be locked again in jail and their country. we have a petition for them, not completed until now. nobody wants to help them. they said, those people are coming from guantanamo. nobody allows for them to travel. they do not have a passport or some way to leave their country or to go somewhere. they still continue -- think of them as...
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. >> i was in kandahar for one month, then we came back to pakistan. the situation was very bad in kandahar. people here in doha asked to cover the institutions' there. in december, me and my colleagues crossed into -- we are trying to cross the border. journalists came to cross the border to cover the situation in kandahar. myself only, they discovered me there. when i asked why, they told me some paper came from the region from al jazeera. i think the guy who stopped me there, he told me, "i know you because you cross this border twice, i know you're a ."urnalist swi they told me there is some paper coming from u.s. people to stop a criminal man, sami al-hajj. later at guantanamo, even at bagram, when they asked me about my story, he said, "you came to this point -- [indiscernible] i understand u.s. intelligence ask pakistan to stop [indiscernible] >> the last journalist to interview osama bin laden. >> yes. [indiscernible] by mistake and asked [indiscernible] they stopped me. when i arrived at bagram [indiscernible] i was in doha. a passport and my
. >> i was in kandahar for one month, then we came back to pakistan. the situation was very bad in kandahar. people here in doha asked to cover the institutions' there. in december, me and my colleagues crossed into -- we are trying to cross the border. journalists came to cross the border to cover the situation in kandahar. myself only, they discovered me there. when i asked why, they told me some paper came from the region from al jazeera. i think the guy who stopped me there, he told...
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drone attacks on pakistan's tribal areas. the strikes hit what pakistani officials described as separate compounds belonging to the pakistani taliban in south missouri stan. the taliban commander was reportedly among the dead. the ongoing drone attacks come days after a federal judge ruled the obama administration is under no obligation to publicly disclose their legal justification. the american civil liberties union and the new york times had filed a lawsuit under the freedom of information act demanding u.s. government disclose the legal basis for launching drone strikes overseas. the suit was filed after the u.s. kill the american-born cleric anwar al awlaki in yemen despite having never charged him with a crime. in upholding the obama at the ministration's right to secrecy, u.s. district judge colleen mcmahon expressed misgivings about the drone program itself writing -- the alice-in-wonderland nature some of the first details have emerged on the white house's effort to tackle gun control in the aftermath of last month's
drone attacks on pakistan's tribal areas. the strikes hit what pakistani officials described as separate compounds belonging to the pakistani taliban in south missouri stan. the taliban commander was reportedly among the dead. the ongoing drone attacks come days after a federal judge ruled the obama administration is under no obligation to publicly disclose their legal justification. the american civil liberties union and the new york times had filed a lawsuit under the freedom of information...
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drone strikes have killed 15 people in pakistan including a taliban commander, according to officials there. mavi nazir was killed along several other people in the strike in south missouri stand wednesday night. a second strike this morning in north was harassed and killed at least four people. the united nations says more than 60,000 people have died in syria over nearly two years of fighting between the government forces and rebels opposed to president bashar al-assad. a new analysis of the toll conducted for the u.n. human rights office took five months to complete using data from seven sources, including the syrian government. the number is higher than the previous estimate of 45,000 reported by the british best based syrian observatory for human rights. rupert colville, spokesperson for u.n. human rights commissioner navi pillay, discussed the syrian crisis on al jazeera wednesday. >> it became so complicated. there were so many different people reporting casualties, so many different places where violence and fighting was going on simultaneously. and no way really of verifying
drone strikes have killed 15 people in pakistan including a taliban commander, according to officials there. mavi nazir was killed along several other people in the strike in south missouri stand wednesday night. a second strike this morning in north was harassed and killed at least four people. the united nations says more than 60,000 people have died in syria over nearly two years of fighting between the government forces and rebels opposed to president bashar al-assad. a new analysis of the...
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last month at least nine volunteers with a polio vaccination drive were killed across pakistan. opposition to health efforts has spread after the cia used a fake vaccination program to help fight osama bin laden. five of the workers killed in tuesday's attack or young women who worked as educators. the remaining two were help workers. a new tally shows the number of civilians killed in iraq rose in 2012 for the first time in three years. the british-based group iraq body count says about 4500 civilians were killed in violence last year. the group said in a statement -- iraq body counts figure is more than twice the number given by iraqi officials who claim violence is actually dropping. on monday, at least 23 people were killed, 87 wounded in a series of attacks across iraq. no. 3 leader kim jong un has called for harmony with south korea in a rare televised address. in a speech broadcast on new year's day, he made no mention of the country's controversial nuclear program and said the economy is north korea's top priority. >> an important issue of putting into the division of th
last month at least nine volunteers with a polio vaccination drive were killed across pakistan. opposition to health efforts has spread after the cia used a fake vaccination program to help fight osama bin laden. five of the workers killed in tuesday's attack or young women who worked as educators. the remaining two were help workers. a new tally shows the number of civilians killed in iraq rose in 2012 for the first time in three years. the british-based group iraq body count says about 4500...